east portlemouth for excercise

[pingu]

well i'll warn you know there are no fish in this report
but after working down in totnes decided on fishing somewhere different
thought of dartmouth but music festival as was rammed, so headed out along slapton
beautifull looking but quite a big surf, but the 50/60 yrds of may bloom put me off

so i eventually ended up at east portlemouth , in search of a ray again

set up on main beach for 6pm( which i had almost too myself), and after a chat to a club mate who fished there recently decamped and went up and over hill to left to possibly one of the nicest fishing bays/beach i have ever been too, and whats more I had it all to myself FANTASTIC



after a while of complete inactivity i got a txt from man in know ( well kev (wellyfish) actually) and he said i should have gone to right of original beach, sod it i thought i was here and that was it, but then a pair if seals came to visit and play so i did move up and over hill you can see in 2nd pic and back over main beach to right infront of boathouse



again i had whole beach to myself should have realised what that meant
also realised after low water allowed i could have gone alot further right but i wasnt moving again

weed was a bit of aproblem but fishable
well after all this non frantic fishing activity( it was so quiet you could hear the seaweed crackiling as it dried out and the barnicles on the rocks bubbling, and a full moon meant i didnt really need tiplights) I was going to pack up about 11.30 on low water as nothing had happened then i missed one of those horrible big springback and slack bites( esaa rules it was a doggie)

so of cause I fished on, packed up 12.40 as ran out of mackeral bait
found a really intersting route home along a tidal road as well, so fell through the door about 2.40 this morning

was a gorgeous eve and an area i will def go back to
there is a ray with my name on there, and a family picnic on beach maybe


dave

[John Marshall]

Top report and pics as always, looks a beautiful place to fish.
You gotta take the wife and children.........brownie points galore!

[Norfolkboy]

Not a bad place to blank, Dave

[fishypaul]

what a lovely place to fish dave,its almost worth blanking on beaches like that

[BaggieRich]

Nice one mate. Looks like a cracking spot. Might have to head down that way again soon eh

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Top read mate and what a location

[devondave]

i took the tidal route... then didnt think anything of it til i was on my way home at the top of a 5.1m tide .....a word of warning! its bloody deep! lol i managed to keep the revs up and get through but ended up with 2 headlights full of water...

shame you didnt get any fish dave those photos are great though!!

[silverfish]

Nice place to blank. Well done for getting out.

[wellyfish]

hey dave you were still in the wrong place mate you need to walk a bit more to the right past the wooden ramp to the corner and have the stone wall to your back ,let me know next time your down and will show ya ....we have a few dolphins in the estuary at the moment, not sure how they affect the fishing but great to watch them ,later mate

[spur]

I fish Portlemouth quite a bit but have never fished that far into the mouth! I've always had more success at ditch end down to the right of the ferry! The point that sticks out about another 400yds up river is a good thornie mark!

The beach you fished looks a little shallow and you might of been bes off flicking 30-40 casts with crab for the bass!